What a difference a year makes!!

What an amazing year its been for WCSUK!

From a chance meeting between myself and Debra, both of us womb cancer survivors; has sprung a mutual support group full of wonderful women, each with their own story to tell.

The past year has seen WCSUK grow from its small beginings on Facebook to over 330 supporters.

As well as the FB page and chat group, there is this blog, the twitter account and the petition page - all brought together by the website set up for us by Debra's daughter Annette.

We ran a successful awareness campaign during September as well as a fundraising auction to help add funds to the research project being run by Dr Ellis at Hammersmith Hospital.

Debra sold Christmas cards designed by Annette and I continue to make and sell jewellery for the fundraising.

So, its been a busy year - full of highs and lows as we follow some of the women in the group through their treatment schedules.

So here's to the next year - and beyond! What does the future hold? Well, we've still got a long way to go to dispell the stereotypes about the women who get womb cancer and we've got a lot more awareness raising to do but our priority has been and always will be to offer support and advice to those women who have womb cancer.

Because, no one fights alone!

http://www.wix.com/wombcancersupportuk/home

Raising Awareness & Empowering Women

Running a support group whilst trying to recover from major surgery and cancer treatment has been a bit difficult at times but knowing that what we do as WCSUK is valued by the women who come to us is what keeps us going.
Knowing how alone we felt in the early days of diagnosis; having no-one to talk to about how we felt; knowing no-one with a similar diagnosis.
The women who are part of WCSUK don't have to go through that - because now there is somewhere they go go for help, advice, support and a shoulder to cry on!
Its been truly humbling to see how the women have come together to "be there" for each other.

But it doesn't stop there. Supporting women going through womb cancer treatment is one thing, but raising awareness of a cancer that kills around 1,700 women in the UK each year (and over 8.000 in US!) is proving a hard thing to achieve.

What can WCSUK do? The women in the group are spread around the UK - none of us have ever met! We do what we can by sharing links on Facebook and twitter but how do we reach the many women out there who may be about to get a diagnosis of womb cancer, or the many thousands who could be at a high risk of getting a diagnosis in the future?

A dedicated national womb cancer charity would be a start! It would help to reach the women who are not on Facebook. We have had a petition running now for some months and it is slowly gathering signatures so we know that there is a need for this kind of charity.
http://www.petitionbuzz.com/petitions/wombcancercharity
Please share the link with as many people as possible - via Facebook, twitter, email etc.

March 8th is International Women's Day and WCSUK is joining this year is a bid to raise global awareness of womb/uterine/endometrial cancer.
http://www.internationalwomensday.com/wcsuk Please join us and again, share the link around. It is the only way that we can, at present, get the word out and raise awareness. We have no publicity budget; we can't take out advertisments in the press or get leaflets printed. We need you, the women of this world to help other women and give them the information they need to look after themselves.

http://www.wix.com/wombcancersupportuk/home

Because no-one fights alone!

Out with the old......

...and in with the new!

2011 has been a busy and eventful year for us at WCSUK.

This time last year, we didn't exist! We came into being in April and things have snowballed since then!

The Facebook page; the twitter page; the website - they are all being seen and followed and we are reaching out to women with womb cancer who want support!

We have a lot of things planned for 2012 - but for now we'd just like to wish everyone a peaceful and happy new year.

Always remember that no-one fights alone! xx

Have a peachy xmas with us!

December is upon on and it will soon be xmas. Before you rush off to the shops to buy some cards and presents please take a look at some of the items we have to offer that will help raise funds for womb cancer research.

Debra's very talented daughter, Annette had designed some lovely cards for us, all in peach with some lovely quirky touches. They can be found here
http://www.redbubble.com/people/dparry/collections/108202-christmas-cards?product_type=greeting-card so please do go and have a look at them. They would make a great talking point and give you the chance to explain all about our awareness campaign!

We have re-opened the fundraising page over on Facebook and I have added some new handmade items. The auction we held during September for the awareness month was a huge succes and raised over £300 so I am hoping that we can generate some more funds in the run up to xmas.
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.247361278615163.65978.247340318617259&type=3

All the items come wrapped in tissue paper and in organza pouches and are ideal as stocking fillers. Again, please pop over and have a look and share the link with as many people as possible.

A quick update on our petition calling for a dedicated national womb cancer charity https://www.petitionbuzz.com/petitions/wombcancercharity the number of signatures now stands at 632! Again, please share the link with as many people as possible!

Remember our website can be found here
http://www.wix.com/wombcancersupportuk/home so if you know anyone who may benefit from some mutual support then please let them know about us!

We are already making plans for next years awareness campaign in September. We need to raise awareness of womb cancer and bring a halt to the increasing number of women that are getting this dreadful disease. Only by talking about it and making women aware of the symptons can be hope to one day see an end to womb cancer.

Until next time xx

Peachy update!!

Hello again!

The fundraising is still going strong! https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/Kaz-Molloy1
There is now over £1.000 in the justgiving account for the research project that Dr Patricia Ellis will be doing - if you were under 40 at the time of your diagnosis for womb cancer would you consider being a part of this research? If so would you please contact WCSUK at wcsuk@hotmail.co.uk and I will pass your details onto Dr Ellis.

As part of the fundraising effort we have a selection of handmade jewellery and accessories for sale with all proceeds going to the justgiving account. Check out the goodies on offer here https://www.facebook.com/WCSUKFundraising Lots of new items being added every couple of days so keep checking back!


The numbers on the Facebook support page https://www.facebook.com/WombCancerSupportUK are growing steadily as we are reaching out to the women who need support and advice. Some of them are coming via our website http://wombcancersupportuk.weebly.com  shows up in Google searchs for womb cancer support!

If you have a blog or you tweet - we're https://twitter.com/#!/WombCancerUK - then please help us spread the word and let women with womb cancer know that there is help out there. Remember, no one fights alone.

Things are still peachy!

Well, September's womb cancer awareness month has been and gone and as far as we are concerned, it was a great success!
We ran a virtual campaign on Facebook and got loads of peach ribbons turning up as profile pictures; we held an online auction of handmade goodies that raised over £380 which has been added to the justgiving page, where the total now stands at £1,149.75.
If you'd like to donate to help fund womb cancer research then you can here - https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/Kaz-Molloy1

We had coffee mornings - virtual and real ones! And even a sponsored head signing by one very brave lady! All proceeds from those events were also added to the justgiving fund. We even got some newspaper coverage, only local but it did appear on their website aswell so maybe someone else saw it!!!
http://www.buteman.co.uk/community/rothesay_coffee_morning_to_raise_womb_cancer_awareness_1_1856664


All in all, we are very optimistic about the future. Things are coming together well and there are some exciting things in the pipeline so watch this space!

Always remember, no one fights alone! x

Womb Cancer Awareness Month is here!

Womb cancer awareness month is underway and there are lots of peach ribbons appearing on Facebook as friends and family show their support.

This is the ribbon that most of us are using, which was designed for us by a lovely lady called Annette.

We have an event page on Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=235961659776088 and so far have 373 people joining us to raise awareness of womb cancer.

We also have our fundraising page https://www.facebook.com/pages/Womb-Cancer-Support-UK-Fundraising-page-for-Research/247340318617259 where we are selling items to raise funds for womb cancer research being carried out by Dr Patricia Ellis at Hammersmith Hospital. We have also just been asked if we would like to supply some items to a shop in Whitley Bay for a week or so, which is wonderful.

Check out their Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/RosewillCottage and if you are in the area then pop in and say hello!

We have also decided to start a petition calling for a womb cancer charity. Please pop over and add your name to the petition and share the link with as many people as possible.
http://www.petitionbuzz.com/petitions/wombcancercharity

Please share all these links with as many people as possible. We need to raise awareness of womb cancer and get early diagnosis and treatment for all women with womb cancer.

http://www.wix.com/wombcancersupportuk/home